Short Biosketch

Tim Finin (http://bit.ly/finin) is a Professor of Computer Science and
Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County
(UMBC). He has over 30 years of experience in applications of
Artificial Intelligence to problems in information systems and
language understanding. His current research is focused on the
Semantic Web, mobile computing, analyzing and extracting information
from text and online social media, and on enhancing security and
privacy in information systems. He holds degrees from MIT and the
University of Illinois and has also held positions at Unisys, the
University of Pennsylvania, and the MIT AI Laboratory.